Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 47

Thus answered Uncle Turtle: “I am poor and old and homely, With no garments fit for a feast; Therefore ’tis better for me To smoke my pipe at home.”

Who acts: I, garments, me · What happens: answer, be, fit, smoke · To what, where: Uncle Turtle, pipe, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, garments, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 answered	advmod
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Turtle	compound
4	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answered	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 poor	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 poor	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 poor	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poor	cop
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answered	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 old	cc
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poor	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 homely	cc
13	homely	homely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poor	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fit	punct
15	With	with	SCONJ	_	18 fit	mark
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 garments	det
17	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fit	nsubj
18	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 feast	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 feast	det
21	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fit	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 better	punct
23	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	26 better	advmod
24	’	's	PART	_	23 Therefore	case
25	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 better	obl:unmarked
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 answered	parataxis
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 smoke	mark
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 smoke	nsubj
29	To	to	PART	_	30 smoke	mark
30	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 better	csubj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pipe	nmod:poss
32	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smoke	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 home	case
34	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smoke	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 better	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			Uncle Turtle		thus property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	I				poor property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		I not said here					tree rules
4	be in a quote		I not said here					tree rules
5	fit in a quote	present	no garments				for a feast	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	smoke in a quote	to-infinitive	me	my pipe		home		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 47